I'm the co-founder of Budibase, an open-source low code platform, and 70% of our signups (30,000) are from IT. Low code abstracts a lot of the coding effort, but it's still inherently complex to build applications.
Coding is only one part of the puzzle. For us, it's more about speeding up the dev process for IT profs and removing the repetitive, grunt work.
Low code, against what some people may think, does have its place - CRUD apps, customer portals, internal tools. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Low code platform creators are doing the industry damage by promising their tools can provide the world and more. This is not the way to earn trust or respect, and thankfully Budibase does not follow this path.
> Giving a professional tool to someone doesn’t make them a professional.
Exactly! Two things come to mind:
Anecdotally and from experience, low-code tools are just another tool that developers build to make their life easier. And something interesting happens when a low-code tool gets wide adoption, usually a huge market is created to modify/customize/expand that tool. Think Wordpress, the ultimate low-code website that has created a huge demand for plugins, themes, integrations and whatnot.
Other predictions like AI is going to write code in the future... maybe we'll get some advanced, context aware code generation tools, but as far as I've have seen AI doesn't seem to have the capabilities that a good software engineer ought to have, i.e. creativity, problem solving, deciding where is a good place to compromise vs. taking the hard way...
Software development, even thought there are a lot of things that tech could improve (AI, low-code, et al), is a field that, in my opinion, needs human brains for the foreseeable future.
Repo for ref: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
Coding is only one part of the puzzle. For us, it's more about speeding up the dev process for IT profs and removing the repetitive, grunt work.
Low code, against what some people may think, does have its place - CRUD apps, customer portals, internal tools. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Low code platform creators are doing the industry damage by promising their tools can provide the world and more. This is not the way to earn trust or respect, and thankfully Budibase does not follow this path.
Fun comic strip that is sort of relevant: https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensi...